National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors

The Link Center has released a new publication, Cross-System Strategies to Support Children with Complex Behavioral Health Conditions, authored by Nancy Thaler with contributions from Stacy L. Nonnemacher, PhD. The paper confr...

Advances in neuroscience have demonstrated that many psychiatric symptoms can be approached as brain circuit disorders. These insights have translated into a range of evidence-based interventions—including electroconvulsive therapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation—that directly modulate these circuits and can produce meaningful clinical improvement, even in individuals w...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve access to and better meet demand for mental health and substance use disorder care. AI tools are available anytime, have no waiting lists, are typically low cost, and can be accessed anonymously. The question is not whether these tools have value; it is whether that value can be realized safely and at scale given conce...

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